The History of Christianity

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Section 1: God and history. Time-chart: The Christian centuries -- God, time and history -- Josephus -- Bede -- Eusebius -- John Foxe -- Kenneth Latourette -- Time and progress -- Worship and the Christian year -- The church year -- Weighing up the evidence -- Christianity and the arts -- Fyodor Dostoevsky -- Leo Tolstoy -- Buildings and beliefs -- The rise of modern science -- Christians and war -- Section 2: Beginnings, 1-325. Time-chart: Beginnings -The church expands: Jerusalem to Rome -- Map: The Roman world -- Peter -- Paul -- Maps: Christianity expands -- 'Those Christians' -- Archaeological light on earliest of Christianity - Roman religion -- A puzzle -- The religion of the Romans -- Spreading the good news -- The challenge to faith -- Ignatius of Antioch -- Nero's spectacular massacre -- The Montanists -- Novatianists -- Perpetua -- Cyprian and North Africa -- Justin Martyr -- The Gnostics -- Manichaens -- Irenaeus -- What the first Christians believed -- Marcion -- Origen -- Tertullian -- How the first Christians worshipped -- The Passover -- Clement of Rome -- A service in second-century Rome -- Instructions for worship and leadership -- How the New Testament has come down to us -- Rescuing a manuscript -- Can the text be trusted? -- Chart: The early church recognizes the New Testament -- Section 3: Acceptance and conquest, 325-600. Time-chart: Acceptance and conquest -- Constantine and the Christian empire -- Athanasius -- A hymn of Ambrose -- Ambrose of Milan -- Worship and the Christian year -- The Apostles' Creed -- Egeria's pilgrimage to the holy places -- Building for worship -- Maps: Acceptance and conquest -- Councils and creeds -- Basil the Great -- The Nicene Creed -- Nestorius -- Cyril of Alexandria -- Leo the Great -- The fall of the Roman Empire -- Ulfilas' Gothic Bible -- Clergy, bishops and pope -- Jerome -- John Chrysostom -- Columba -- The church in North Africa -- Augustine of Hippo -- Augustine describes his conversion -- The Donatists in North Africa -- Christian Ascetics and monks -- Patrick -- Life in Benedict's monastery -- Cassiodorus -- Section 4: A Christian society, 600-1500. Time-chart: a Christian society -- The West in crisis -- Boethius -- Gregory the Great -- Alcuin -- Map: The West under Threat: eighth to tenth centuries -- The Eastern church -Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite -- The Paulicians and the Bogomils -- Flowering: the Western church -- Pope Innocent III -- 'The moon and the sun' -- The sacraments are developed -- Bernard of Clairvaux -- A Cistercian hymn -- Francis of Assisi -- The rule of Francis -- The Crusades -- God's non-existence inconceivable -- Anselm -- Scholasticism -- Peter Abelard -- Thomas Becket -- Thomas Aquinas -- Cathedrals and their builders -- Major Gothic buildings -- Popular religion -- Interpreting the Bibl -- Medieval monasticism in the West -- The monk's day -- A contented monk -- A discontented monk -- A medieval monastery -- How the Abbey of Clairvaux was built -- The Orthodox church in Eastern Europe and Russia -- Persecution and inquisition -- The Cathars -- The Waldensians -- An age of unrest -- Jan Hus -- Savonarola -- John Wyclif -- Wyclif's Bible -- Williams of Ockham -- Section 5: Reform, 1500-1650. Seeds of renewal -- The imitation of Christ -- Reform -- Martin Luther -- A safe stronghold -- The faith of the Protestants -- Philip Melanchthon -- Martin Bucer -- Huldreich Zwingli -- John Calvin -- Theodore Beza -- Puritans and Separatists -- Thomas Cranmer -- John Bunyan -- A glood of Bibles -- William Tyndale and the English Bible -- The Anabaptists -- Early English Baptists -- The Catholic reformation -- Gasparo Contarini -- Ignatius of Loyola -- The Jesuits -- Teresa of Avila -- John of the Cross -- Art and the spirit -- Section 6: Reason, revival and revolution, 1650-1789. Awakening -- Johnathan Edwards -- George Whitefield -- Philip Jacob Spener -- Howell Harris -- The Methodists -- John and Charles Wesley -- Hymns and church music -- The Russian church -- Expansion world-wide -- The first English missions -- Map: Expansion world-wide -- Count von Zinzendorf -- Reason and unreason -- Blaise Pascal -- The reasonabless of Christianity -- George Fox and the Quakers -- The Unitarians -- Section 7: Cities and empires, 1789-1914. Europe in revolt -- Pope Pius IX -- The first industrial national -- The Salvation Army -- Thomas Chalmers -- The Brethren -- The Oxford Movement -- Cardinal Newman -- C.H. Spurgeon -- God's grandeur -- The Evangelicals -- Hymns and church music after 1800 -- A crusade among equals -- D.L. Moody -- A world come of age -- Friedrich Schleiermacher -- Outposts of empire -- Map: World empires, 1914 -- William Wilberforce -- David Livingstone -- Samuel Adjai Crowther -- Societies for mission -- William Carey -- Hudson Taylor -- The Bible societies -- Section 8: Present and future. Time-chart: The modern world -- An age of ideology -- The Christian church and the Jews -- Martin Luther King -- An age of anxiety -- Albert Schweitzer -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer -- C.S. Lewis -- How many theologies? -- An age of liberation -- Toyohiko Kagawa -- Billy Graham -- Helder Camara -- Alexander Solzhenitsyn -- Pope John XXIII -- Pentecostalism and the Charismatic Movement -- African independent churches -- Translating the Bible -- Organizing for unity -- Present and future -- Referene section.